In the 1920s, Marcel Reider (1852 – 1925) painted a series of twilight sceneries while he was at Lac d’Annecy, France, each of which is an arrangement of the same elements – lamp-lit females on a terrace at dusk, with a place set at the table for an absent companion. Like variations on a theme, Reider revisited this poetic image time and again, which became something like his signature style, one which I find endlessly captivating.