The plow (or plough) is a basic instrument in agriculture and has been in use for thousands of years. Initially land was prepared with simple digging sticks or hoes. The first plows that were used were human powered, but when animals became domesticated plowing became easier with the use of horses and cattle. Nowadays animal power is almost everywhere being replaced by tractors. Many artists have used plowing farmers in their paintings.
The following is a brief galley of plowing farmers.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Ilya Repin – Tolstoy ploughing
Detail of Les tres riches heures
Rudolf Koller
Grave chamber of Sennudem: Plowman
James Tissot – The Man at the Plough
Giovanni Segantini – Plowing
Henry Herbert La Thangue – The Last Furrow
Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez – The Plowman
Laboureur dans un champ – Vincent van Gogh
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