William Holman Hunt Palette 4

Palette Analysis

William Holman Hunt sits in the centre of the value range, lending the palette a sense of even, sustained light. Temperature is cool-dominant, with blue and green families claiming the largest areas. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The most saturated colour, #97303D, is reserved to 1.9% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. The full value range is 60 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form. The mid-to-high key, cool bias, and moderate chroma point to outdoor observation - sky and diffused daylight as the dominant light source. This is palette 4 of William Holman Hunt's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.