Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Values in Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. Only 7.2% is devoted to #A17054, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 72 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. This is palette 1 of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.