The center space of View of Auvers sur Oise is dominated by block houses that stretch across the rolling landscape. Whereas the houses in the forefront of the image have been painted with intricate detail, those in the background are simple rectangles and squares with distinctive colors distinguishing the walls and roofs.
The rolling hills stretch out into the horizon and appear almost flat. Although they take up almost one third of the canvas, they do not arrest the viewers' attention.
The trees in the foreground are attention grabbing due to their bright colors, and the fact that they encroach onto the houses' space. The lofty tree that stands tall in the center of the scene gives the impression that the trees and the hills meet, as though there is almost no village sat in the middle of the composition.