Jean-Baptiste Carnay

This Parisian artisan spent his days bending tiny scraps of gold into snuffboxes small enough to hide in a glove, then painting gods inside them. He turned Cupid and Venus into delicate enamel miniatures you can still see in the Met’s European Sculpture court. Why look him up?

Slide past the marble statues and find case 17.190.1213; the box is the size of a thimble and the scene inside is sharp enough to make you blink.