ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 examines the reception of Gloria Victis in Denmark, focusing on its acquisition by Carl Jacobsen for Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1906. It argues that this placement symbolically aligned Denmark with France by linking the Danish defeat in the Second Schleswig War (1864) to France's loss in the Franco-Prussian War. This chapter reveals a little-remembered moment when segments of the Danish elite imagined cultural and strategic alignment with France despite Germany's regional dominance. It also analyzes Landsoldaten med den Lille Hornblæser (1899) as a localized adaptation of Gloria Victis's visual grammar. Together, these examples show how Denmark blended foreign commemorative models with domestic mythmaking while expressing informal political aspirations.
