The phrase "a large tableau" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or extensive scene, display, or representation, often in an artistic or illustrative context.
Example: "The museum featured a large tableau depicting the historical events of the region."
Alternatives: "a grand scene" or "an expansive display".
The prime minister's eloquence fit into a larger tableau of British wartime stoicism at a moment when most Americans are on a patriotic high.
In the last 10 years, Air Force officials have said, 56 women have officially reported being sexually assaulted, but they acknowledge that the figures represent only a small corner of a much larger tableau.
In twos and threes, they support one another in improbable, gorgeous balances, then coalesce, like filings drawn to a magnet, into a larger, leaning tableau.
Even though Hank is a fallen business giant, he isn't part of a larger social tableau: he's a self-made sporting goods tycoon who went afoul of his board of directors, not someone who went astray in the subprime market.
He is still into large tableaus, but now they are sculptural and political.
He also created the three large tableaus for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington: "Depression Breadline," "Appalachian Farm Couple" and "Fireside Chat".
In his memorable photographic series "Acts of Memory I-X," Pyke has explored his visual history in ten large tableaus, four of which make up Steve's current exhibit at Artjail, 50 Eldridge Street, on view until May 23rd.
It is more artful than that, most obviously in Andreas Gursky's large tableaux of repetitious modernism in Montparnasse, Paris, or the Dantean circles of the Sé subway station, São Paulo.
"They had already dug three anchorages lined with rubblework and were progressing from both sides, containing the mud with large wood retaining walls and securing the locks with pontoons and palisades," he explains, showing why the soldier's work was so difficult — and why these books' usual rescues, betrayals, romances and literary disputes are more appealing than its large tableaus.
