Gustave Courbet occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Neither warm nor cool has the upper hand here; the equilibrium between the two generates the palette's visual energy. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. Only 9.1% is devoted to #7A6837, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. At 65 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. In the context of Gustave Courbet's full range of palettes, group 7 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.