Mid-key values give Pietro Longhi its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Warmth dominates - the palette of Pietro Longhi 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. Only 4.1% is devoted to #CAAA84, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. The value range of 49 units sits in the comfortable middle: enough depth, enough light, neither extreme. This is palette 9 of Pietro Longhi's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.