George Caleb Bingham occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Saturation is measured and controlled, giving the palette presence without visual aggression. The most saturated colour, #2A0B18, is reserved to 4.9% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. 62 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that George Caleb Bingham's complete body of work advances.