The value structure of Adam Elsheimer is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Adam Elsheimer builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. The highest-chroma note - #884F33 - appears at just 4.2%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 76 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. This is palette 1 of Adam Elsheimer's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.