Here one can again encounter the work of Józef Brandt, whose Lisowczyk was previously presented in the hall of historical painting. The painter was one of the first and most typical representatives of the so-called Munich school of Polish painters. Here is a painting entitled Before the Storm, in which movement, so often present in his depictions of battles, skirmishes and soldiers' games, is only apparent in the dying smoke of the bonfire and the hunter's clothes blown by the wind. The expanse of the vast steppe, which seems to be beyond the frame of the painting, brought out by the lightened brown-grey palette and the considerable lowering of the horizon line, enhances the effort to capture the mood of the moment and the atmosphere of calm and anticipation.