John Singer Sargent works in the upper reaches of the value scale, creating an atmosphere of brightness and expansiveness. Warmth dominates - the palette of John Singer Sargent leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The most saturated colour, #B39066, is reserved to 7.4% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 68 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that John Singer Sargent's complete body of work advances.