Canova executed four versions of his Hebe. The first is now in the National galerie in Berlin, it was commissioned in Venice by Giuseppe Giacomo Albrizzi in 1795. The second version is now in the Hermitage, Leningrad and was executed between 1800 and 1805 for Josephine Beauharnais. The third is at Chatsworth, was sent to London for Lord Cawdor in 1816 and varies in some details to the first two, notably in the substitution of a tree trunk for the bank of clouds. Though the present marble has the tree trunk, it depends upon Canova's last Hebe, the one now in the Pinacoteca Comunale at Forli. This was commissioned by the Contessa Veronica Guarini and was executed between 1816-17. It too has the tree trunk support, but also, like the present example, is enlivened by the addition of a necklace and a fluttering sash about her waist.
Copies of the different versions were executed both by Canova's studio assistants, such as Adamo Tadolini, but also later, as his model of the Cup-Bearer of the gods was widely admired for its innovative tripping stance, grace and Classical purity.