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Andrée and her son Charles Terrasse. Our drawing is a perfect combination of the abstract and representational elements that came to define the work of the Nabi period. In a letter to his mother, dated February 11 , 1893 , Bonnard wrote: “I have found a patron whom, seduced by my drawings for the Solfège, has asked me to do an album for children. I’m going to make an Alphabet sentimental . Isn’t the title pretty? To each letter will correspond a word beginning with that letter, signifying a passion or a state of soul, and which I will render by familiar little scenes in which there will be babies, animals, landscapes, etc. . . . It’s a question of making beings and things speak.”