From dd7259f6db7c9c49e13c76995fdc152ed8d35b5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Beltran <brunobeltran0@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:11:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] BUGFIX: conditional for add_axes arg deprecation

---
 lib/matplotlib/figure.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
index 299e893993f8..bf54af53dfc4 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ def add_axes(self, *args, **kwargs):
             fig.add_axes(ax)
         """
 
-        if not len(args):
+        if not len(args) and 'rect' not in kwargs:
             cbook.warn_deprecated(
                 "3.3",
                 message="Calling add_axes() without argument is "