Tableau Vivant

Near where these damsels stood was a fountain which had pipes running with milk, wine, and hypocras; at the side of the Church of the Holy Trinity was a _tableau-vivant_ of the Passion of our Saviour, including a crucified Christ and two thieves, represented, as the chronicle states, "par personnages sans parler." ❋ Various (N/A)

And that will be the best _tableau-vivant_ you or any one else can study. ❋ Various (N/A)

They might at this moment, in their positively portentous stillness, have been keeping it up for a wager, sitting for their photograph or even enacting a tableau-vivant. ❋ Henry James (1879)

These things held the attention; they had a natural authority and, in spite of their suggesting too much the school-girl in the _tableau-vivant_, a "plastic" grandeur. ❋ Henry James (1879)

From the perspective of the completely empty ramps, or straight up from the ground floor, museumgoers will stare into a kind of motionless tableau-vivant tornado that seems intent on taking the Surrealist trope of the chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table and turning it up way past 11. ❋ By RANDY KENNEDY (2011)

Kew a curtsey, looking her full in the face, and turning round to her father, said, “I am a tableau-vivant, papa. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On that same evening, when the Newcome family assembled at dinner in Park Lane, Ethel appeared with a bright green ticket pinned in the front of her white muslin frock, and when asked what this queer fancy meant, she made Lady Kew a curtsey, looking her full in the face, and turning round to her father, said, "I am a tableau-vivant, papa. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)