The stag shown here is by Rosa Bonheur, the first woman awarded the Grand Cross of this French medal
[DOC] [TLE] Rosa Bonheur biography - ringlingdocents.org [PAR] ... nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur was also one of the first renowned 
painters of animals and the first woman awarded the Grand Cross by the French 
Legion ... medal at the age of twenty-six in 1848 and was commissioned by the 
French ...