from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([0,1,2,3,4,5,6], label='linear')
ax.plot([0,1,4,9,16,25,36], label='square')
lgd = ax.legend(loc='lower right')

def add_patch(legend):
    from matplotlib.patches import Patch
    ax = legend.axes

    handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels()
    handles.append(Patch(facecolor='orange', edgecolor='r'))
    labels.append("Color Patch")

    legend._legend_box = None
    legend._init_legend_box(handles, labels)
    legend._set_loc(legend._loc)
    legend.set_title(legend.get_title().get_text())


add_patch(lgd)

plt.show()