Mid-key values give Jean II Restout its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Jean II Restout orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. The most saturated colour, #D3B67D, is reserved to 5.9% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 61 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. This is palette 2 of Jean II Restout's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.