Baule statuary is one of the styles of African art whose aesthetics have emerged the earliest in the West. When modern artists are discovering Negro art in Paris. it is she who from the French colonies reaches the market most easily and thus integrates their collections. This statue, once belonging to Charles Ratton, is one of those witnesses who contributed to the recognition of Baule art. Appreciated for its “peaceful concentration”, its “introspective reflection”  and for the “classicism” of the criteria of beauty it conveys, Baulé statuary immediately and evidently touched the Western sensibility