Antoine Maucourt

This 18th-century artist carved delicate portraits on ivory. One tiny slice of life is the 1781 Portrait of Johannes Wesenhagen, a man’s face, three inches wide, etched in fine lines. Look closer and you’ll see the same careful hand that turned ladies’ lockets and gentlemen’s snuffboxes into miniaturized mirrors of the era. Tap next to zoom into the ivory’s cool sheen and the subject’s powdered wig.