Marie-Victoire Lemoine Palette 2

Palette Analysis

Values in Marie-Victoire Lemoine rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. At 26.1%, #373736 functions less as a colour accent and more as a complete atmospheric environment. The highest-chroma note - #90734C - appears at just 9.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. 78 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls. This is palette 2 of Marie-Victoire Lemoine's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.