In 2022, the Musée Marmottan Monet celebrates the 150th anniversary of the centrepiece of its collections, Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise] and pays tribute to it through the exhibition Facing the Sun: The Celestial Body in the Arts from 21 September 2022 to 29 January 2023.

With almost one hundred works, coming from fifty-three lenders, this exhibition retraces the history of the representation of the sun in the arts from antiquity to the present day. A unique ensemble of drawings, paintings, photographs, and measuring instruments from the Paris Observatory, illustrate the developments in astronomy over the centuries, in resonance with the evolution of landscape and atmospheric painting.