Values in Mabuse rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Warm hues command this palette; Mabuse favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #624333, is reserved to 9.6% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. This is palette 3 of Mabuse's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.