Treat them, then on to other matters (Curalos y á otra)

In this image, the second of the two preparatory drawings Goya made for etching no. 20 in the Disasters of War series, we can see the changes that were made to what was probably the earlier drawing, and that were kept for the finished print. The artist has included the trees in the background, their branches broken and dead. He has also changed the posture of the wounded man being held up from behind in the foreground. In the previous drawing his face was downturned, making it invisible to the viewer, but in this drawing and in the etching it is facing out at us. His clothes are now brighter, too, a device that reveals Goya's desire to underline this character's importance in the scene. The artist has also slightly modified the postures of the two men who are holding up the wounded man, correcting them to make them stronger and more balanced.