Light floods Auguste Edouart; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #FCF5EF claims 32.6% of the surface, functioning as the work's tonal foundation. #DDCECB delivers the chromatic peak at only 3.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. Value range is moderate at 51 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. This is palette 1 of Auguste Edouart's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.