Hermes auf der Schildkröte

Already on the day of his birth, the god's adventurous spirit showed itself by riding a turtle. Shortly afterwards he will kill it and build the lyre, his first invention, from its shell. The sculpture was already exhibited in plaster in 1865 at the Swiss Turnus Exhibition (No. 188). Obviously the version was ordered in 1870 in marble, but according to the dating it was not completed until 1878. Source