Eugène Laurent keeps values measured and balanced, a hallmark of tonal restraint. Eugène Laurent keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. A single dominant - #222221 at 31.1% - sets the character of the whole composition. #322A20 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (6.6%). 56 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Eugène Laurent's palette 2 carries its own internal logic while remaining in conversation with the artist's broader colour intelligence.