“Home Past Times or Tableaux Vivant” (1860) is a curious volume. It includes written instructions on how to create roughly 150 living pictures in your own home.

An American publication from 1871 called 'Parlor Tableaux and Amateur Theatricals' describes tableau vivant as a 'simple' and 'elegant' form of entertainment. Over the course of 300 pages, it ...

TABLEAUX VIVANTS and New York society are old friends: They have always got on splendidly together. Not every year, or every other year, but periodically- say, five years apart.

“Home Past Times or Tableaux Vivant” (1860) is a curious volume. It includes written instructions on how to create roughly 150 living pictures in your own home.