In continuing to color correct by eye (not the best way to do it, BTW), I saw that the contrast was too great in the first, limited adjustment. When this happens, the picture loses it's color strength.

The double-cone representation of color (there are a variety of notations but we'll use HSL -- Hue Saturation Lightness) shows that colors changing lightness toward brightness or darkness automatically lose strength or saturation ("chroma" in this graphic):

By compressing more of the picture into the mid-range (while maintaining higher and lower lightness), it can become richer, more saturated.

The first color correction fixed only the low end and high end and raised brightness by gamma [picture on the left]. This time, the addition of midtones compression, while re-adjusting the other factors to maintain the total picture, allows for more richness [picture on the right]. Rule-of-thumb: when the skin-tones start looking better, you're going in the right direction:

These are the re-adjusted settings and how the original spectrum is affected [the red overlay]. Note the new midtone compress settings:

When doing such a process, mask-off extraneous elements of the capture so only the picture proper is "active" for both analysis and adjustment. Once the settings are established, remove the mask and apply the correction to entire frame.

This is about as far as one can go using a paint program's no-control-points curve in HISTOGRAM. To closely match a target picture, one must define the curves with greater flexibility using points in CURVES.