American amateur photographer Adolphus Stoiber was living in Paris when he took this marine scenic view of a man rowing a boat in a harbor. The same lighthouse appearing in this photo also shows up, but more obscured, at background left in his 1897 photograph Sunset.

Adolphus H. Stoiber: 1853-1916

Adolphus H. Stoiber. Secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, and for many years a lawyer here, died On Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland, in his sixty-fourth year. He was born here, and was graduated from the College of the City of New York and Columbia Law School. He was for many years a member of the law firm of Vausschaick, Gillender, &  Stoiber, and was counsel in many important cases. In 1897 he retired from the firm and removed to Paris, where he resided until the beginning of the war. (1.)

1. Obituary: Adolphus H. Stoiber: The New York Times, March 12, 1916