Straatgezicht met begrafenisstoet in Caïro 1895 - 1910

This image, "Straatgezicht met begrafenisstoet in Caïro", is an early photograph. Probably hand-tinted? We don't know the date, or the maker, but it captures a scene, a moment, a story. The image is composed of a street scene populated with figures dressed in North African garb, maybe robes. The colors are muted, as if the sun has bleached the scene, but there are pops of red and blue. The crowd creates a rhythm, a procession. It could be an early example of street photography! The color palette feels somehow both authentic and artificial at the same time, so I wonder if the color in this piece might be more of an imagination, a dream, or a fiction. Does the image remind me of anything else? Perhaps the paintings of David Hockney, who has a similar interest in capturing scenes from life, in capturing people within their own environment.