Vasily Vereshchagin is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. Cool hues prevail: blues, greens, and greys anchor the palette's emotional temperature. Chroma is moderate: colours carry enough saturation to be read as colour, but the palette stops well short of garish intensity. Only 3.6% is devoted to #734C3A, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 63 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 3 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Vasily Vereshchagin's complete body of work advances.