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 depicts an officer talking to two women on a terrace at sunset, with the Acropolis in the background, in contrast to the more common depictions of Greece in 19th-century painting that focus on rural life. 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; there are also several in private collections in both Athens and Paris.