In his paintings, the artist who had always approached landscape with humility rather than self-conciously strove for purity and simplicity of composition. Early on he invented a diagonal composition ideally suited to his needs, and which he repeated, more or less openly and in endless variations, in numerous works. He repeated the composition used in the "Field with Poppies", with the hill falling away on the left and a narrow band of sky, frequently in his main works. Here, however, he adds a new and spectacular element by placing the single human figure at the edge of the painting, at the focal point of the flowers lining the way, so that this figure, despite its small size, dominates nature.