Caspar David Friedrich Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Light floods Caspar David Friedrich; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. The most saturated colour, #F5C783, is reserved to 5.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. A value spread of 68 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 2 of Caspar David Friedrich's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.