Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery comprises approximately 85 master drawings from the Gallery’s collection, providing a survey of European draftsmanship from the late 15th to the mid-19th centuries. The drawings range from early studies in the late-medieval model-book tradition (an anonymous Venetian Lion, ca. 1480) up to the beginnings of modern art (Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Giulia Bellelli, ca. 1858–59). Drawings of all media, genres, and types—preparatory studies for paintings or prints, finished drawings, and casual sketches—are included, and a range of national schools, including French, German, Italian, Netherlandish, and Spanish, is represented. Intended to draw new attention to Yale’s rich but relatively little-studied collection of European drawings, the exhibition and catalogue provide the first comprehensive look at Yale’s collection of European drawings in over 30 years.