51�Թ�

“COVAX was built on the status quo of market dynamics: Whoever pays the most is first in line,” says Victorine de Milliano, a policy adviser for the Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign.

Although the picture was more conventionally modeled than Manet’s work, it nonetheless had the same air of knowing make-believe as Manet’s 1860s renderings of Victorine Meurent in various costumes.

If there's a reason Victorine Meurent is nude in Manet's famed painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe," it may well be because her dress, crumpled amidst the scattered detritus of lunch, was impossible to manage for the duration of the meal.

But a witch doctor told them their girls, Victorine and Victoria Nikiema, needed to beg for money on the side of the road or risk being killed by a family member’s spirit.

Victorine’s first prize at the Conservatory in 1844 — one of several pupils of Louise’s to achieve that distinction — foreshadowed what the journal Le Ménestrel declared in 1845 would be the “reign of the women.”