Man Blowing on an Ember

Man Blowing on an Ember is an undated work by Dutch artist Matthias Stom, one of several he produced on Sicily.

It represents a man wearing a turban, blowing on a ember.

The composition is in the chiaroscuro style and doesn't provide any evidence about the setting.

[1] The painting was recorded in the Ruffo collection in Messina, and it is now held in the Palazzo Abatellis, in Palermo.

[2] This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub.