Charles Victor Thirion occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Charles Victor Thirion builds on cool foundations: the palette favours the blue-cyan-green arc. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. At 6.1%, #B29869 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. Spanning 47 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Charles Victor Thirion's complete body of work advances.