A crowd of armed Parisians seizes a man in a red coat inside a courtyard of the Bastille, while a white flag rises at the left and cannon smoke drifts across the right. Pikes and muskets bristle above the crowd, wounded and dead men lie on the cobblestones, and a round tower of the fortress looms behind. Charles Thévenin painted it around 1793, four years after the event, as a small oil of about 16 by 23 inches (41 × 58.5 cm). The picture shows the arrest of the Bastille's governor, Monsieur de Launay, in the second courtyard on July 14, 1789; the museum also lists it as Arrest of M.

de Launay. It describes the figures as insurgents and sans-culottes, some wearing cockades. It was shown at the Salon of 1793 and again at the Salon of 1795, and the Musée Carnavalet acquired it in 1886. It was in the museum's exhibition Paris 1793–1794: A Revolutionary Year in 2024–2026.

It is in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.