Thorvald Niss (b. Assens 1842, d. Frederiksberg 1905)
The ruins of Cap Sounion in Greece. Signed with monogram. Oil on canvas. 175×110 cm.
Provenance: Bruun Rasmussen auction 763, 2006, no. 2069.
Thorvald Niss visited Italy and Greece in 1885–86 and again in 1892.
Cape Sounion is the headland at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, 8 kilometers south of the city of Lavrio and 69.5 km southeast of Athens in the Athenian Riviera.
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Paintings and drawings, 6 December 2023