“He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.” (Isaiah 53:4)

In 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution a painting by the artist known to us as Rembrandt called “Christ with Arms Folded” was confiscated from the home of Russian Count Alexander Orloff Davidoff of Petrograd. Ten years later, the painting was again stolen from the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow and ruthlessly vandalized, slashing and scarring the canvas. The painting remained missing for four years before it was found buried in a sealed can with other stolen art in 1931. In 1933 Louis and Charlotte Hyde, founders of The Hyde Collection, purchased the Rembrandt painting and brought it to their Glens Falls home. Despite its dust, dirt, and slashed canvas, the painting, as seen above, was beautifully restored.**

Restoring a pai…