Salvator Rosa distributes its values across the middle register, creating harmony without high contrast. Warmth dominates - the palette of Salvator Rosa leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. The most saturated colour, #C49B67, is reserved to 4.7% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 66 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. These proportions encode Salvator Rosa's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.