Mid-key values give Auguste Toulmouche its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Temperature reads distinctly warm: the reds and earth tones from Auguste Toulmouche carry the compositional weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. The most saturated colour, #87493E, is reserved to 2.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 62 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 2 of Auguste Toulmouche's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.