The phrase "a tableau of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vivid or picturesque representation of a scene, often in artistic or literary contexts.
Example: "The artist created a tableau of a bustling market, capturing the vibrant colors and lively atmosphere."
Alternatives: "a depiction of a" or "a representation of a".
What emerged is a tableau of a disease that fully lives up to its reputation in folklore.
The Guggenheim show, for example, will feature a tableau of a few Alaia dresses displayed in front of Andy Warhol's "Last Supper" paintings.
The day is fine, the sun will shine" with a tableau of a breakfast table and a rooster cock-a-doodle-dooing at the sun peering through a window, each piece made from ragged cut-paper, is child-friendly.
Although it would require us to sacrifice our family trip to the local costume store (where we linger every year in front of the plate-glass window that displays a tableau of a mother rat suckling her snarling litter in a bone-strewn graveyard), the selection would be worth it.
It's typical of "Beyond Borders" pulp brazenness that it has Sarah run across a tableau of a dying boy facing a vulture that was the subject of a famous news photo of a few years back.
Her newest projects include a tableau of a bunch of jock squirrels and a rabbit raping a baby doll in the woods, an exhibitionist squirrel jerking off in a meticulously crafted subway car, and a baby doll in garters riding an incredibly well-dressed rooster.
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" sketched a tableau of an all-American family brutally murdered by a pair of criminal drifters.
The scene building had sufficient space for the operation of complex stage machinery both for flying actors onto or off the stage and for revealing a tableau of an interior scene on a platform rolled out from within.
"Drinking the Health of Princess Ozma of Oz" (1907), for example, a scene in which many figures toast the ravishing princess, looks almost as mannered as a tableau of an Arthurian legend.
Her father's secret war paints a tableau of an evasive figure.
"Speak Louder" is a tableaux of a six figures with bowed sousaphone-like heads that are linked together by their black-button drapery.
