“Servant”, like other terms such as “Page”, “Footmen” and “Baboo”, are frequently occurring terms in many museums databases and can most often be found in the descriptions of paintings and photographs. These interrelated terms describe a person employed in another’s household to do diverse domestic duties such as cooking and cleaning, or to be someone’s attendant. The terms do not in themselves suppose gross exploitation, even if they describe a hierarchical relation in class and power, sometimes marked by exploitation. The multiple and complex relations that servants may have with their masters makes any too easy judgement of the role of the servant or conditions under which they lived an incautious one. “Page” describes a young male servant or attendant, working for a nobleman, or from the Renaissance as servants for fashionable women and men. Referring to someone as servant or page today is regarded as demeaning or insulting in some circles. Maintaining the term in the description of historic paintings and photographs may however be recommended in some situations, especially when the person’s name is not known, since it conveys the power relations more transparently.