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How many paintings did Renoir make?

portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, circa 1910. Photographer: Dornac (Paul Marsan, 1858–1941). Wikimedia Commons file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir,_Pierre-Auguste,_by_Dornac,_BNF_Gallica.jpg ; public-domain status marked by Wikimedia Commons. Attribution: Dornac / BnF Gallica; reused from fact 2308 package.

Renoir’s painting *Luncheon of the Boating Party* (1880–1881). Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party.jpeg ; public-domain status marked by Wikimedia Commons. Attribution: Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Wikimedia Commons; reused from fact 2318 package.

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portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, circa 1910. Photographer: Dornac (Paul Marsan, 1858–1941). Wikimedia Commons file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renoir,_Pierre-Auguste,_by_Dornac,_BNF_Gallica.jpg ; public-domain status marked by Wikimedia Commons. Attribution: Dornac / BnF Gallica; reused from fact 2308 package.

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Renoir worked as a painter from the 1860s until 1919, spanning almost six decades. Sources estimate that he made several thousand paintings; one gives a figure of about 6,000. That is an estimate, not a definitive count.