Mid-key values give Eduard Gaertner its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Blues and teal-greys govern the palette, lending it an aquatic or atmospheric quality. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #574221, is reserved to 10.1% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The value range of 54 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. This is palette 3 of Eduard Gaertner's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.