Peasant

Peasant is a subject in art. The gallery holds 142 works in this subject in art, including works by Edouard Manet, Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Paul Cezanne.

A peasant is a pre-industrial farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord., or a agricultural laborer. In Europe, three classes of peasants existed: non-free slaves, semi-free serfs, and free tenants.