Jean-Baptiste Le Prince distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 3.9%, #8A3F1D carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. The palette spans 53 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Jean-Baptiste Le Prince's complete body of work advances.