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A tableau vivant (French: [tablo vivɑ̃]; often shortened to tableau; pl. tableaux vivants; French for 'living picture') is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically illuminated.
Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly: Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems; Division tableau, a table used to do long division; Method of analytic tableaux (also semantic tableau or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
Jean-François de Troy (27 January 1679, Paris – 26 January 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo easel and fresco painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer. One of France's leading history painters in his time, he was equally successful with his decorative paintings, genre scenes and portraits.
The Tableau économique (French pronunciation: [tablo ekɔnɔmik]) or Economic Table is an economic model first described by French economist François Quesnay in 1758, which laid the foundation of the physiocratic school of economics.
A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière (French: Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière) is an 1887 group tableau portrait painted by the history and genre artist André Brouillet (1857–1914). The painting, one of the best-known in the history of medicine, [ 1 ] shows the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot giving a clinical demonstration with ...
Thaïs (French pronunciation:) is an opera, a comédie lyrique in three acts and seven tableaux, by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, based on the novel Thaïs by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on 16 March 1894, starring the American soprano Sibyl Sanderson , for whom Massenet had ...
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(French: La baigneuse blonde) 1882: 90 cm × 63 cm (35 in × 25 in) Private collection Portrait of Charles and George Durand-Ruel (French: Portrait de Charles et George Durand-Ruel) 1882: 65 cm × 81 cm (26 in × 32 in) Private collection Still Life, Roses of Wargemont (French: Nature morte, Roses de Wargemont) 1882