diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibraryimageprovider.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibraryimageprovider.cpp
index 6912e09cbb3..7210fb3fbf2 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibraryimageprovider.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibraryimageprovider.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ QPixmap ItemLibraryImageProvider::requestPixmap(const QString &id, QSize *size,
         size->setWidth(pixmap.width());
         size->setHeight(pixmap.height());
     }
+
+    if (pixmap.isNull())
+        return pixmap;
+
     if (requestedSize.isValid())
         return pixmap.scaled(requestedSize);
     return pixmap;
diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarywidget.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarywidget.cpp
index 9cdfb59448e..a1334a50685 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarywidget.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarywidget.cpp
@@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ QIcon ItemLibraryFileIconProvider::icon(const QFileInfo &info) const
         pixmap = defaultIcon.pixmap(defaultIcon.actualSize(m_iconSize));
     }
 
+    if (pixmap.isNull())
+        return pixmap;
+
     if (pixmap.width() == m_iconSize.width()
             && pixmap.height() == m_iconSize.height())
         return pixmap;