From 64ff907d03e691173136ac2744c251491047683c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphael Erik Hviding <raphael.hviding@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:40:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #29552: Bug Fix: Normalize kwargs for Histogram

---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
index 4b51049ebb44..d11f916f7429 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -7018,6 +7018,8 @@ def hist(self, x, bins=None, range=None, density=False, weights=None,
         bin_range = range
         from builtins import range
 
+        kwargs = cbook.normalize_kwargs(kwargs, mpatches.Patch)
+
         if np.isscalar(x):
             x = [x]