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The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant is a literary work from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) which illustrates the value society placed on the concept of justice and equality under the law. In the story, a peasant named Khun-Anup...

Bodo was a early 9th-century Frankish farmer. He and his family hailed from a manor owned by the monastery of St.-Germain-des-Prés near Paris and worked as its tenants. He ploughed the farmlands while his wife, Ermentrude, took care of their...

The 'Peasant Wedding Dance', a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, c. 1610 CE. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

An 1891 gouache and chalk on silk painting, Peasant Women Planting Pea Sticks, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist was interested in capturing an idealised view of rural life in many works...

An 1881 oil on canvas painting, Peasant Hanging the Washing, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Depicting a scene from the banlieues of Paris where new housing was recently built for poorer families so that they...

Peasant selling his assignats to a money changer, Paris, gouache by Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, c. 1789-1796. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

An 1887 oil on canvas landscape by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Here the artist is using the pointillist method of building up an image using small dots of colour. Unlike others who used dots, Pissarro...

A painting by Taras Shevchenko. The artist created this work during his first trip to Ukraine. In this painting he portrayed a family scene near the house: a young couple is happy observing the first steps of their child. Oil on canvas...

The German Peasants' War (1524-1525) was a conflict between the lower class of the Germanic region of the Holy Roman Empire and the nobility over the feudal system of serfdom, religious freedom, and economic disparity. It was later characterized...

An 1893 painting by Sergey Korovin showing the meeting of elders at a Russian peasant commune, the standard farming unit for peasants prior to reforms in the early 20th century. (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)