Iakovos Rizos

Iakovos Rizos or Iacovos Rizos , also known as Jacques Rizo, (c. 1849 – 1926) was a Greek painter who worked primarily in Paris.

Biography Rizos was born in Athens; he was the grandson of Iakovos Rizos Neroulos and his brother was a civil engineer. He went to Paris as a young man, studied with Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux Arts,

Rizos was a friend of Renoir and associated with the Impressionists, and much admired Degas' work after he first moved to Paris, but his own style was academic. In 1877 his Indolence, a nude, was praised by one critic except for the execution of the head, and by another praised for the colouration but faulted for the drawing, particularly of the hands and feet.

Rizos' Athenian Evening or On the Terrace of 1897 won a silver medal at the 1900 Paris exposition and was praised at the 1899 art exhibition in Athens. It is a noted example of the juxtaposition of sophisticated urban life with the country's past grandeur, which was a theme of Greek artists in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It and a number of his other paintings are in the Coutlides Collection at the National Gallery of Greece;

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