BUG: IndexError when plotting empty dataframe subset with DatetimeIndex on an existing axis

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Code Sample, a copy-pastable example

# Case 1 - no error raised:
df = pd.DataFrame({"col1":[1,2,3]})
ax = df.plot()
df[df["col1"]==9].plot(ax=ax)

# Case 2 - error raised:
df = pd.DataFrame({"col1":[1,2,3]}, index=pd.date_range("2020-01-01 00:00:00", periods=3, freq="10s"))
ax = df.plot()
df[df["col1"]==9].plot(ax=ax)

Problem description

IndexError is raised when trying to plot an empty subset of a dataframe that has a DatetimeIndex to an already existing axis (case 2). The better option would be that no error is raised and simply nothing is added to the existing axis as is the case if the index is a normal index instead of a DatetimeIndex (case 1). This is better becaue it allows to plot subsets of a dataframe within a loop or similar without having to care about whether the resulting subset is gonna be empty or not.

Expected Output

When adding an empty subset of a dataframe with DatetimeIndex to an existing axis, nothing is added to the plot and no error is raised.

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 7d32926
python : 3.7.3.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Windows
OS-release : 10
Version : 10.0.18362
machine : AMD64
processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 12, GenuineIntel
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : None
LOCALE : None.None

pandas : 1.2.2
numpy : 1.19.5
pytz : 2020.5
dateutil : 2.8.1
pip : 21.0
setuptools : 49.6.0.post20210108
Cython : None
pytest : None
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 3.4.3
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : 2.8.6 (dt dec pq3 ext lo64)
jinja2 : 2.11.2
IPython : 7.19.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4 : 4.9.3
bottleneck : None
fsspec : None
fastparquet : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.3.2
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.6.0
sqlalchemy : 1.3.20
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : 1.2.0
xlwt : None
numba : None