Maria Sibylla Merian is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Maria Sibylla Merian tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. Maria Sibylla Merian gives 35.2% of the composition to a single #EDE7DA - a decisive chromatic anchor. #7D5B2A delivers the chromatic peak at only 6.5% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. Spanning 53 units on the value axis, the palette achieves the balance between tonal flatness and fragmentation. The palette has the character of outdoor light: cool, mid-bright, with colour rendered faithfully rather than expressively. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Maria Sibylla Merian's complete body of work advances.