Art, literature & history
Der Welt Lauf (Sleeping Justice)
1525
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (trimmed to plate): 4.1 × 6.5 cm (1 5/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.876
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Barthel Beham. Der Welt Lauf (Sleeping Justice). Barthel Beham; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Rosenwald Collection. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Der Welt Lauf (Sleeping Justice) — Barthel Beham. 1525.
Medium: engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (trimmed to plate): 4.1 × 6.5 cm (1 5/8 × 2 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.876. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.