Description
In Bon Voyage, Francisco Goya sends a crowded group of grotesque beings through the night on the back of a winged creature. Their distorted faces and huddled bodies emerge from darkness as if the whole company were a single unstable form. The landscape below is barely suggested, leaving the airborne procession suspended in an atmosphere of menace and absurdity.
Published as plate 64 of Los Caprichos in 1799, the print transforms the conventional wish for a pleasant journey into a darkly comic farewell. Goya draws on the imagery of witchcraft without presenting an orderly supernatural story. Dense aquatint and softened passages make the creatures feel spectral, while their human expressions keep the satire close to everyday folly. The image allows fear, ridicule and uncertainty to occupy the same unsettling space.
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