Photographer
Pach
fl. 1874–1883
Photographer, active 1874–1883.
Life and work
- 1874–1878On the third day of the trial the museum's album of photographs of the Cesnola collection, 'taken in the rooms at Fourteenth Street by Mr. Pach at various times', was put in evidence through Hutchins. A leaf (pp. 105-106) carrying the priest statue without its patera-hand had been torn out, with a note on p. 107 'Pages 105 to 106 detached' in a hand the witness said was not his; the detached leaf with the mutilated proofs was also produced, while the negative and the negative proof were missing. Hutchins had kept the album until he left the museum.
- 1874–1878The editorial supplement shows statue no. 39 as it was exhibited in Fourteenth Street 'as shown in a photograph by Pach in 1874-78', against a photograph by Cox on sale at the door of the Central Park museum and Cesnola's 1878 book. It also says another print of the missing priest photograph exists in the album of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, 'which will probably be produced in court'.
New YorkThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial… 1883, p. 4a-4b
- December 1883 – January 1884Alley, who sold photographs and the catalogue at the door, said none of the photographs on sale showed the priest with hand and patera detached, found a proof of that picture in the catalogue of negatives, and described the leaf's removal from the album over three hours; Savage said Cesnola called Feuardent's published photograph of the handless priest a forgery.
New YorkThe Feuardent-Cesnola Trial 1883, p. 24The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial 1884, p. 55
Connections
1 personColleagues & contacts
- Connected with Luigi Palma di Cesnolapossibly1874–1878
Sources
- 1. (1883). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial”. The Art Amateur 10, 23-24. Online
- 2. (1883). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial (Editorial Supplement)”. The Art Amateur 10, 4a-4b. Online
- 3. (1884). “The Feuardent-Cesnola Trial”. The Art Amateur 10, 55-56. Online