Joaquín Sorolla Palette 20

Palette Analysis

Values in Joaquín Sorolla rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. A restrained, mid-chroma palette: every hue is present and legible, but nothing shouts. The highest-chroma note - #1D1309 - appears at just 6.2%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. The value range spans 69 units across the palette, providing the full gamut from deep shadow to near-white and ensuring clear tonal hierarchy. The combination of mid-to-high key, balanced temperature, and elevated chroma is characteristic of Impressionist observation: light broken into its component hues. This is palette 20 of Joaquín Sorolla's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.