David Bailly is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. #D9B78A delivers the chromatic peak at only 8.5% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The palette spans 47 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. Together these qualities point to the open-air Impressionist method: recording light rather than local colour. This is palette 1 of David Bailly's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.