The Collaborative International Dictionary
Living picture
Living picture \Liv"ing pic"ture\ A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
Usage examples of "living picture".
He was painting a picture, a living picture, using the air for his canvas, his homesickness for his brush.
With intense concentration he compared the canvas with the living picture within him.
He looked with interest at the view window at one end but did not recognize it as a window, mistaking it for a living picture like those he had been used to at home-the suite he had been in at Bethesda contained no windows, it being in one of the newer wings, and thus far he had never acquired the idea of “.