Jean-Baptiste van Loo occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm hues command this palette; Jean-Baptiste van Loo favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. The most saturated colour, #D6A662, is reserved to 11.2% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The palette spans 52 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama. In the context of Jean-Baptiste van Loo's full range of palettes, group 1 represents one movement in an ongoing chromatic dialogue.