diff --git a/napari/components/_tests/test_viewer_model.py b/napari/components/_tests/test_viewer_model.py
index 20d076ddb7b..a98b643ab51 100644
--- a/napari/components/_tests/test_viewer_model.py
+++ b/napari/components/_tests/test_viewer_model.py
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ def test_add_image_colormap_variants():
     assert "did you mean to specify a 'channel_axis'" in str(err.value)
 
 
+def test_add_image_accepts_all_arguments_as_sequence():
+    """See https://github.com/napari/napari/pull/7089."""
+    viewer = ViewerModel(ndisplay=3)
+    img = viewer.add_image(np.random.rand(2, 2))
+    viewer.add_image(**img._get_state())
+
+
 def test_add_volume():
     """Test adding volume."""
     viewer = ViewerModel(ndisplay=3)
diff --git a/napari/components/viewer_model.py b/napari/components/viewer_model.py
index 5c55da54f7b..1874928456d 100644
--- a/napari/components/viewer_model.py
+++ b/napari/components/viewer_model.py
@@ -962,6 +962,8 @@ def add_image(
             'metadata',
             'experimental_clipping_planes',
             'custom_interpolation_kernel_2d',
+            'axis_labels',
+            'units',
         }
 
         if channel_axis is None: