Light floods Ernest Meissonier; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. #5A3826 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.1%). 64 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. In the context of Ernest Meissonier's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.