An important gift of more than 350 European small-swords, hunting swords, and daggers was donated in 1926 by the Parisian collector Jean Jacques Reubell (1851–1933) in memory of his wife and mother, each native New Yorkers. This included Morgan's only piece of armor, the magnificent parade helmet made by Filippo Negroli of Milan in 1543. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) were given to the Museum. In 1919 major portions of the art collections formed by J. Between World War I and World War II a number of ancestral, dynastic, and private collections were partially or completely sold off, leading to many significant additions to the Museum's holdings. Riggs (1827–1924), an American who had spent most of his life in Europe in search of historic and artistic arms. In 1913, the Museum received as a gift the outstanding collection of European arms and armor assembled over the course of fifty years by William H. Even before this time, however, the trustees of the Museum made valuable acquisitions of arms and armor, most notably the collection of European arms and armor formed in France by Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord, Duc de Dino (1843–1917), which was purchased in 1904. The Arms and Armor Department was created within the Museum in 1912, due largely to the efforts of its founding curator, Dr. It is one of the most comprehensive and encyclopedic collections of its kind. The collection comprises approximately fourteen thousand objects, of which more than five thousand are European, two thousand are from the Near East, and four thousand from the Far East. The Met collection of arms and armor is a modern one, formed through the activities and interests of curators, trustees, private collectors, and donors over the past 125 years. Throughout time the best armor and weapons have represented the highest artistic and technical capabilities of the society and period in which they were made, forming a unique aspect of both art history and material culture. Arms and armor have been a vital part of virtually all cultures for thousands of years, pivotal not only in conquest and defense, but also in court pageantry and ceremonial events. The principal goals of the Arms and Armor Department are to collect, preserve, research, publish, and exhibit distinguished examples representing the art of the armorer, swordsmith, and gunmaker.
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