Mid-key values give Edouard Manet its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Edouard Manet deploys as the palette's primary energy. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. #DBA622 delivers the chromatic peak at only 8.0% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. 70 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 16 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Edouard Manet's complete body of work advances.