Pausanias tells us (Book 9. 35. 1-7) that while it was normal in his time the 2nd century AD to depict the Graces as nude he has seen older works of art in which they are clothed but alas none of those works survived even as Roman mosaic copies.
However here's one Roman era fresco from Pompeii that did.
and here to demonstrate Classical Influences on later art Raphael's depiction of the Graces.
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