Values in Eugène Girardet rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Warm and cool are kept in productive tension, creating the kind of chromatic harmony that sustains the eye. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #AD9043 - appears at just 8.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 57 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Eugène Girardet arrived at this balance through long practice; the palette carries the weight of that experience.