My personal skepticism is because I am now skeptical that any image that seems too good to be true is AI generated. And the sauce lines look almost artificially clean and complex with the shrine.
Like the shrine's reflection off of the lake, getting progressively lighter towards the bottom of the plate too? Impressive.
And from a quick Google search, that page seems to be the beginning of The Man of the Crowd, by Edgar Allan Poe. So likely an Poe collection of stories