Charles Willson Peale Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Values in Charles Willson Peale rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The saturated accent, #E3706F, registers at 7.0% - sparse enough to feel like a deliberate surprise. The full value range is 69 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 2 of Charles Willson Peale's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.