Plate 45 from ‘The Disasters of War’ (Los Desastres de la Guerra): ‘And this too.’ (Y esto tambien.)

Description

In And This Too, Francisco Goya shows people leaving home under cover of darkness. Women carry children, a man bears a bulky load, and animals accompany the hurried group. Their possessions and dependents make each step more difficult. The scene’s overlapping pale and shadowed forms convey flight as an improvised movement in which ordinary domestic life must somehow be taken along.

Plate 45 of The Disasters of War continues the preceding image’s claim to witnessed experience. Goya gives displacement a concrete texture through the things and living beings people try to preserve. The title links this nocturnal departure to other scenes of upheaval rather than offering an isolated anecdote. There is no visible secure destination: the image remains fixed on the moment of leaving, when survival requires movement but the future is still unknown.

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