The Luminous Intimacy of Marcel Rieder Born in the historic Alsatian town of Thann in 1862, Marcel Rieder emerged from a distinguished lineage to become one of the most evocative chroniclers of quiet, domestic grace in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century French painting. His journey through the prestigious halls of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under the tutelage of Alexandre Cabanel, provided him with a rigorous classica…