[2][3] Another bronze by Duquesnoy of about the same size, and dating to the same period, the Apollo and Cupid, is likewise housed at the Liechtenstein Museum.

[1] According to Giovanni Pietro Bellori, the sculpture was originally designed as a pendant to a bronze of Hercules in possession of Giustiniani.

In Bellori's Vita delli musei, said Herlucs, Duquesnoy's Mercury, and a sculpture of Athena are described as the highlights of Giustiniani collection.

[1] Mercury his standing up, resting his right hand on a tree stump while gracefully bending his body to the right.

[4][1] The Austrian sculptor Georg Rafael Donner greatly[1] admired Duquesnoy's Mercury and his Apollo and Cupid.