The value structure of Adolph Tidemand is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. Adolph Tidemand builds 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. #575440 delivers the chromatic peak at only 5.5% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The value range of 40 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of Adolph Tidemand's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.