Joseph-Marie Vien occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Joseph-Marie Vien orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. At 8.1%, #CCA982 carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. Spanning 44 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Joseph-Marie Vien's complete body of work advances.