The sitter (30 August 1868 – 27 November 1948) was the eleventh child of Alois and Genovefa Müller-Lombardi.
According to the late Peter Conrad, the picture hung in the simple home of the sitter, Berta Emilie Bernhart-Müller at St. Fiden (St. Gallen) when he was in Switzerland in 1946-47 and represented her. In a contemporary frame similar to that of her sister Adelina.