Joseph Desire Court sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Muted throughout, the palette achieves its effects through value and temperature rather than chromatic force. Rather than a studied accent, #CCB394 takes 4.5% - a bold allocation that saturates the composition's atmosphere. The full value range is 63 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of Joseph Desire Court's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.