Eugène Jansson Palette 10

Palette Analysis

Eugène Jansson sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 7.4% is devoted to #425381, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range of 38 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. In the context of Eugène Jansson's full range of palettes, group 10 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.