Eugene Lepoittevin occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Eugene Lepoittevin keeps warm and cool in parity, a balance that lends the work a perceptual shimmer. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #845B2F functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (9.0%). A value spread of 73 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Eugene Lepoittevin's complete body of work advances.