Alexandre Cabanel keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Alexandre Cabanel builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #112583 delivers the chromatic peak at only 0.6% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. At 71 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 8 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Alexandre Cabanel's complete body of work advances.