history 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. Colours are neither washed out nor blazing; they occupy the productive middle ground of the chroma scale. The most saturated colour, #AA5948, is reserved to 2.8% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 59 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively.