Edgar Degas is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. #AF5E3B delivers the chromatic peak at only 3.8% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The palette spans 54 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of Edgar Degas's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.