Frederick Sandys Palette 3

Palette Analysis

Frederick Sandys distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. #6C4D30 at 9.9% is both the most chromatic and one of the largest colours in the palette - chroma as mass rather than as highlight. Value range is moderate at 48 units - enough contrast for legibility, not so much as to fragment the tonal unity. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 3 of Frederick Sandys's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.