Ary Scheffer occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. #AA8E77 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (4.1%). 70 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is palette 2 of Ary Scheffer's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.