Jacob van Ruisdael works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #C1C2D6 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (10.6%). 66 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Jacob van Ruisdael's complete body of work advances.