Academicism distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Built on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #754E38, is reserved to 5.7% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 56 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively.