Values in Louis Janmot rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Warmth dominates - the palette of Louis Janmot leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #A25925, is reserved to 4.9% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 64 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. These proportions encode Louis Janmot's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.