Model for the lion on the Four rivers Fountain

Model for the Lion of the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona in Rome. This model is first recorded in the minutes of a meeting held at the Accademia di San Luca on March 17, 1748. The document records that Bernardino Conati, a jeweler from Piacenza, had donated the Lion, along with a terracotta representing Bernini's statue of the Moor in Piazza Navona, to the Academy's study collection the previous year. The statue was preparatory for the fountain of the four rivers in piazza Navona.