Gezicht op de hangbrug over de Sarine, te Fribourg 1864

Eugène Cicéri’s lithograph captures a view of the suspension bridge over the Sarine River in Fribourg. Rendered in shades of brown ink, the composition balances the geometry of engineering with the organic forms of the landscape, creating a harmonious tension. The bridge, a feat of 19th-century engineering, spans the chasm, its horizontal lines cutting across the verticality of the towers and the rolling hills. This print offers a study in contrasts—between the man-made and the natural, the ordered and the wild. Cicéri uses linear precision to depict architectural details while employing softer, more diffuse marks to evoke the foliage and the flowing water. The formal elements of line and tone serve as signs, with each contributing to the artwork's dialogue between technology and nature. Ultimately, this lithograph invites us to consider how we interpret the interplay between human innovation and the natural world, a discourse which remains as pertinent today as it was in Cicéri's time.