Soir Bleu ☳ Hopper ☵ Art Print dogs where a random street lamp

where a random street lamp glows overhead

The tale was popular in the 18th century

Rembrandt is seated

the 1621 edition of Adriaan Metius's Institutiones Astronomicae Geographicae

and other amalgams of real and imaginary creatures fill the scene

Soir Bleu ☳ Hopper ☵ Art Print dogs where a random street lampSoir Bleu (1914) by Edward Hopper was painted in Paris, and titled in French (Blue Evening). It depicts an assortment of people gathered on a terrace, sitting around small tables with Chinese lanterns overhead. On the far left, a man smokes a cigarette; in the center, another smoker and a military officer share a table with a clown in bright white costume; a heavily made up woman stands behind them; and on the far right sit a couple in fancy dress.