Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Only 12.0% is devoted to #22180E, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. 78 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 2 of Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.