Playing Card Dress, Star and Moon Hats, Wonderful Original Victorian Portrait of a Dramatic Trio antique french ribbon spools I would guess it is

I would guess it is Thai

There is a shadow over the upper right corner of the frame

I know that Kosarek did a series of portraits of men confined inside various sorts of structures and so might take this as a self portrait of sorts

I didn't know what this was when I found it

or maybe both--who knows

Playing Card Dress, Star and Moon Hats, Wonderful Original Victorian Portrait of a Dramatic Trio antique french ribbon spools I would guess it isThis trio! I was very pleased to have a dealer in my neck of the woods set this one aside for me, thinking it might be up my alley indeed he was right, love at first sight. I don't know enough to say whether these three were occultists of some variety or just playing dress up, but they do look quite serious about it, the woman at center definitely has the air aura of a seer, and the man at right looks as though he might have been having an