A statue showing Hermes and the infant Dionysos, attributed to Praxiteles of Pergamon, was discovered at Olympia in 1877.
The sculpture was located where Pausanias had seen it in the late second century CE. Hermes is represented in the act of carrying the child Dionysos to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing.The statue is today exhibited at the Olympia Archaeological Museum.