genre painting is high in key: pale, luminous, and filled with optical air. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. #AB5845 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.3%). From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 70 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively.