Values in James McNeill Whistler tilt decisively toward white, giving the palette its luminous character. A distinctly cool atmosphere runs through this palette: sky, water, and mist given colour form. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #C18D52 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (4.2%). From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 60 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. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that James McNeill Whistler's complete body of work advances.